Rt2 features?

Is there a list of additional features that RT2 will have? I have a
bunch I need to incorporate, but I haven’t seen a list of what’s going to be in
RT2.

Also part of this question is "when will RT2 finish its alpha software stage?"
I know this was posted a few days ago, but I didn’t see an answer. Jesse, is
there any way I can help?

Thanks

-Kurt

At this moment, I’m a bit too busy to enumerate all the new things
that will be in RT2.0. If you can mail me a list of what you need,
I can tell you what’s already there.

Later today, I’m going to send out an annoucement that RT 1.3.41 is Alpha 4 for RT2. Right nowm the best thing that you can do is to haul down 1.3.41 and
beat on it a bit.

    -jOn Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:27:35AM -0500, Kurt Yoder wrote:

Is there a list of additional features that RT2 will have? I have a
bunch I need to incorporate, but I haven’t seen a list of what’s going to be in
RT2.

Also part of this question is “when will RT2 finish its alpha software stage?”
I know this was posted a few days ago, but I didn’t see an answer. Jesse, is
there any way I can help?

Thanks

-Kurt


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I don’t mind if you send it to rt-devel; I’ve clarified some of the stuff
below as well as asking more questions (sorry).

Can I send a copy of this to rt-devel? I don’t want to publicize your requirements if you don’t want them out there, but this would be useful for others to see, i think. I hope I answered your questions.

    -j

split issues off of a ticket (this in next release?)

rt2 lets you link tickets. you can do what you want with
a little bit of UI

is the UI customization part of rt2 only? if also part of rt1, are there any
docs?

no “number” priorities, should be relative to each other instead
for instance, ticket 100 is equivalent priority to ticket 102, below ticket
101, and above ticket 99
this would remove the possibility of running out of available priority #s

not there. not going to happen for 2.0. not going to be terribly easy to implement. you might be able to fake it with links. (a MoreImportantThan link…)

are links also only part of 2?

hmm… I was thinking along the lines of:
each relative priority gets a unique “container”
each “container” has one or more tickets
each “container” has exactly one other container above it and one below it
(exception: lowest container has nothing below it, highest has nothing above it)

to put one ticket in between two other tickets:
create a new container and put the new ticket in it
container below new container changes “above” pointer to new container
new container changes “above” pointer to what container below it was pointing to

to put one ticket in identical priority to another ticket:
add it to the same container as the other ticket

tightly linked to inventory management; include serial-number field
this way I’d be able to reference all tickets associated with a particular
machine

probably 2.2 or 2.4 when someone writes an asset tracking system to tie things
to.

for now, you can create a RefersTo link for each ticket that "RefersTo asset://domain/ASSETID. then some simple config file hacking to tie to your asset trakcing sytem. what asset tracking system do you use?

is RefersTo part of RT1?
Unfortunately I don’t have asset tracking yet; has anyone else done this? What
do they use?

more granular control of making changes to tickets & adding them
(is this the ACL?)

ACLs do that. there now.

Are there any docs/instrucs on how to use this?

sort main view by area, priority

1.0 has that.

Oops, I meant filter, not sort…

section “also look at these other issues in X area:”

The related tickets links should handle that for you.

Is this also only in RT2?

have links to other tickets in close-by areas
administrator defines “close-by” areas in relation to other areas

I’m dubious about the utility of this. and I’m not sure how it would get implemented. can you give me a ‘story’ of how this would work?

OK, I’m in an area club x (for us, I’ve defined the areas as club x, y, and z).
Club y is close by, and I just closed out what I had to do at club x. I’d like
to pop a reminder up saying “if you have time, also drop by club y and look at
these tickets”. Then I’d show a list of all tickets at club y.

automatic re-activation of tickets from “stalled” status after
user-defined time
only administrator can stall tickets indefinitely

someone needs to write an “RT cron” tool to do this sort of thing.

OK, how do I sign up?

when setting up new ticket, have possible actions (or “none”)
this is a kind of web template for creating new requests
ex: action “upgrade PC to new”, asks who for, checkbox list of what to do
where this is, etc, then press “submit” and template is created
then press “ok” and it’s committed
administrator can modify and add new web templates
can track statistics by these actions (ex “5 upgrade PC to new actions”)

I’d probably do this with a keywords select. (imagine being able to
have as many ‘area’ selections as you need with their own names and list of
options. per queue or global. that’s keyword selects)

only in rt2?

My apologies for the extra time/questions! Thanks…

Kurt

I don’t mind if you send it to rt-devel; I’ve clarified some of the stuff
below as well as asking more questions (sorry).

rt2 lets you link tickets. you can do what you want with
a little bit of UI

is the UI customization part of rt2 only? if also part of rt1, are there any
docs?

It’s only part of RT2.

are links also only part of 2?

Links are new in RT2

hmm… I was thinking along the lines of:
each relative priority gets a unique “container”
each “container” has one or more tickets
each “container” has exactly one other container above it and one below it
(exception: lowest container has nothing below it, highest has nothing above it)

to put one ticket in between two other tickets:
create a new container and put the new ticket in it
container below new container changes “above” pointer to new container
new container changes “above” pointer to what container below it was pointing to

to put one ticket in identical priority to another ticket:
add it to the same container as the other ticket

I’m really not sure that there’s much win of doing that over numerical priority.
I also suspect that it would be a lot more code and trouble than it’s worth.

tightly linked to inventory management; include serial-number field
this way I’d be able to reference all tickets associated with a particular
machine

probably 2.2 or 2.4 when someone writes an asset tracking system to tie things
to.

for now, you can create a RefersTo link for each ticket that "RefersTo asset://domain/ASSETID. then some simple config file hacking to tie to your asset trakcing sytem. what asset tracking system do you use?

is RefersTo part of RT1?

Nope. RefersTo is just a type of link.

Unfortunately I don’t have asset tracking yet; has anyone else done this? What
do they use?

more granular control of making changes to tickets & adding them
(is this the ACL?)

ACLs do that. there now.

Are there any docs/instrucs on how to use this?

By ‘there now’ I actually meant that they were there now in RT2. Docs
are still forthcoming.

sort main view by area, priority

1.0 has that.

Oops, I meant filter, not sort…

RT2 can sort on thse things.

section “also look at these other issues in X area:”

The related tickets links should handle that for you.

Is this also only in RT2?

Once again, this is just an application of the new Links system.

have links to other tickets in close-by areas
administrator defines “close-by” areas in relation to other areas

I’m dubious about the utility of this. and I’m not sure how it would get implemented. can you give me a ‘story’ of how this would work?

OK, I’m in an area club x (for us, I’ve defined the areas as club x, y, and z).
Club y is close by, and I just closed out what I had to do at club x. I’d like
to pop a reminder up saying “if you have time, also drop by club y and look at
these tickets”. Then I’d show a list of all tickets at club y.

Hrm. I’m not sure how I’d handle this. I’ll think about it.

automatic re-activation of tickets from “stalled” status after
user-defined time
only administrator can stall tickets indefinitely

someone needs to write an “RT cron” tool to do this sort of thing.

OK, how do I sign up?

Grab RT2, install it and start fleshing out your requirements. bounce them
to me before you start coding if you can and I’ll give you my thoughts.

I’d probably do this with a keywords select. (imagine being able to
have as many ‘area’ selections as you need with their own names and list of
options. per queue or global. that’s keyword selects)

only in rt2?

Yep

My apologies for the extra time/questions! Thanks…

no problem

Kurt

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